OPENING EVENT: Tuesday, 11th September, 5.30-7.30pm
ARTIST TALK: Saturday, 6th October, 11am - as part of Artweek Auckland.

New work by SAM MITCHELL to commemorate the 125^th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand.  On 19 September 1893 the Electoral Act 1893 was passed, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.  As a result of this landmark legislation, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.

Mitchell presents a new series of works on both perspex and canvas depicting influential female figures - African American science fiction writer Octavia Butler; Classicist and Women's Rights Campaigner Mary Beard; English author and literary critic Lorna Sage; English novelist and poet Emily Bronte; US science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin; English novelist Mary Shelley; Polish-French physicist Marie Curie; Italian Baroque painter Artemisa Gentileschi; Belgian-French film director Agnes Varda; NZ painter Lois White; US art dealer and champion of abstraction Betty Parsons; and Catherine the Great - Empress of Russia  - a casting call of feminists.